Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 226, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1915 — BEES’ STINGS KILL A COW [ARTICLE]

BEES’ STINGS KILL A COW

Valuable Jersey Animal Tries to Fight Insects and Gets the Worst of It. Monmouth, Ore—Stung by thousands of Italian bees, a valuable Jersey cow, owned by O. A. Wolverton, ex-postmpster of Monmouth, died Tuesday afternoon. The animal had been turned into the grass on the southwest; corner of the Normal campus. On a small lot adjoining the campus were 75 hives. When Bossie began to fight several of the Italians, hundreds, then thousands., “mobilized” and aid for the distressed cow was impossible.